Improvement in harvesters



JOHN WOODY, OF MOUNT VERNON, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTERS.

Specillcation forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,120, dated August 20, 1861.

.To all whom it may concern'.-`

Be it known that I, JOHN XVooDY, of Mount Vernon, in the county of Posey and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Harvester; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this speci# ication, in which- Figure l is a side sectional view of my invention, taken in the line m x, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan or top view of the saine; Fig. 3, a section of the saine, taken in the line y y, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a section of the saine, taken in the line z z, Fig. 2. i

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

Arepresents the main frame of the machine, which is formed of a bar, a, having an oblique bar, b, attached to its inner side, the two bars being connected at their front ends by a cross bar, c.` (See Fig. 2.) i

. To the front ends of the bars c b there are blocks d d attached-one to each bar. These blocks d are parallel with each other, and they are connected near their front ends by a crossbar, e. Through the front parts of the blocks d d a rod, f, passes, said rod also passing through the inner or back end of the draftpole B. The pole B is divaricated or forked at its innerend, as shown clearly in Fig. 2,

. and on the back part of the bar a of the main frame A there is a slightly-inclined support, g, to which a horizontal bar, h., is attached at right angles, and braced from the back end or" main frame by an oblique or diagonal bar, i.

To the support g there is secured a horizontal bar, j, which has the lower end of alever, k, attached to its front end, andA to the lever k a bar, Z, is connected bya pin, m, the front end of said bar being attached by a bolt, n, to the draft-pole B. u

To the support g, at a point below the bar j, there is secured by a single bolt, o, a bar, C, which extends forward over the back part of the draft-pole, and is connected to the latter by a link, p, thelink being attached to .the draft-pole by a single bolt.

To the back part of the bar C an upright,

q, is attached. This upright q supports the drivers seat D,` and said upright is -braced from bar C by a diagonal bar, r. A bar, s, is attached to the bar r and upright q, the bar s having a foot-board, t, at its front end.

To one side of the upright gthere is attached grain-wheel F fitted in it, and has a wing, G, l

attached to its inner side, and a shoe, H, at its front end. y

I is an inclined roller having spiral or screw flanges b Vformed on or attached to it. The lower end of this roller has its bearings in the shoe H, and the bearing of the upper end of the roller is in the front end of a horizontalL bar, c', which is attached to the upper part of the support a. The roller I is allowed to rotate freely in its bearings, and it is in line with the grain`wheel F or directly in front of it.

J is the finger-bar, which is constructed of metal and is secured at its ends to the front part of the frame E and to the bar c. The iingerbar J has a series of grooves or recesses made in its under side to receive the back parts of the ngers K, and the caps d of the fingersl extend over on the front part of the finger-bar, and are secured thereto by rivets c', rivetsf also passing through the back part of the iinger-bar and through the shanks of the fingers. The front edge of the ngerbar between the fingers K has seniicircular recesses or notches g made in it, as shown clearly in Fig. 2. The cutter-bar h of the sickle works in rectangular notches t, made in the under sides of the caps d of the iingers, the back edge of the cutter-bar bearing against the front edge of the finger-bar, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The under side of the finger-bar J, around the notches g', is rounded, as shown in Fig. l.

The connecting-rod K, by which the sickle is driven from the usual crank, is placed between the bars c e and rests on a metal plate, It, which is secured to the under sides of the bars c e, and the inner side of the bar c has a projection or shoulder, .7", said projection or shoulder being' suiiiciently long to serve as a guide for the end of the rod K and keep its proper Working of the same.

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pin 7c Within the cutter-bar h Without the aid of a nut. (See Fig. 2.)

From the above description it Will be seen that the driver may from his seat D readily raise the Jnger-bar and sickle over any obstruction Which may lie in their path by simply pressing his foot against the upper end of the lever k and bea-ring back on the seat D; and it will also be seen that the finger-bar and sickle may be retained at any desired height by passing a pin through the guide u and through any of the series of holes w in bar o. The recesses or notches g in the front edge oi'l the iingenbar J allow of the ready egress of all grain or trash that may chance to work inV between the cutter-bar and finger-bar or underneath the cutters,while the notches t" in the under sides of the caps d of the fingers keep the. sickle in proper position and insure a The inclined screw-roller I is rotated by the friction of the grain as the latter comes in contact with it,

and the roller insures the grain being conducted properly on the platform. The spiral or screw flanges b greatly assist in giving the grain the proper direction, and isa great improvement over the smooth roller patented by ine October l2, 1858.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, aud desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The lever 7c, attached to the draft-pole B by the bar Z, and the bar C, which supports the drivers seat D, and is attached to the draftpole B by the link p, in combination With the guide u, attached to one side of the seat-support q, the perforated bar c, attached to the support g and fitted in the guide a, all being arranged as and for the purpose speciied.

JOHN VOODY.

Vitnesses:

JOHN A. MANN, JNO. M. BARTER. 

